Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models. like WeChat.).

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models. like WeChat.).

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Customer Development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

With hundred of thousands of global practitioners, the supply of ideas and best practices is endless. Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. The company was having a noticeable customer retention issue several years ago.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research. 4) Manage deal flow.

Private Equity 60

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Jim Semick , co-founder of ProductPlan , which sells web-based software for building visual product roadmaps. a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Peter Arvai.

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